Defense Ministry Secretary General Dieter Kandlhofer is likely to leave the department and move into the private sector. An official confirmation from the cabinet of Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) is still pending, Kandlhofer is currently on vacation, it was only said on Wednesday.
Kandlhofer moved from the Chancellery to the Ministry of Defense at the end of 2019 with the formation of the ÖVP-Green government. There he worked out the new structural reform of the ministry, which caused quite a bit of resentment. His name recently appeared in connection with the Klagenfurt Airport case.
Barracks project for more than €100 million
In March, plans circulated that a large barracks worth more than 100 million euros would have to be built in the non-operational airport areas. The Lilihill Group of investor Franz Peter Orasch is going to build the barracks “turnkey”. At the same time, it became known that Orasch and Kandlhofer have shares in the same company.
Kandlhofer is said to have sold shares in the company Hydrotaurus C-Tech to Orasch in 2020 and at the same time is (or has been) one of the strongest supporters of a new large barracks on the airport grounds, as the “Kleine Zeitung” reported a few days ago. of the Ministry states with the paper that there are no “contractual relations between the Ministry and the companies involved”, Lilihill spokesman Gerhard Seifried is quoted as saying: “It is “completely inadmissible to make a connection between the activities of Hydrotaurus C-Tech and possible projects at Klagenfurt airport”.
According to the newspaper, Minister Tanner Kandlhofer would have withdrawn from the Klagenfurt barracks project at the end of April.
Source: Krone
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